During the Christmas season, we not only celebrate community, but also what we have achieved together. The entire team of the WMR-PRIME project would like to thank the participants for their active contribution to the practice recommendations and their commitment to the continuous improvement of care practice in psychosomatic medicine. Thank you very much for the trusting and successful cooperation in 2024. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

In the WMR-PRIME study, the three participating rehabilitation centers have completed the questionnaire survey with the control group which started end of May 2024 prior to the implementation of the newly agreed practice recommendations. As planned, 75 or more people undergoing rehabilitation were recruited to participate in the first patient survey at each facility. By taking part, we can now determine, among other things, the patients reached, the treatment dose provided and perceived, as well as treatment adherence. In the coming weeks, the practice recommendations will now be implemented in the rehabilitation centers before recruitment of the second study cohort begins in …

The practice recommendations for WMR in psychosomatic rehabilitation facilities, which were agreed in two Delphi rounds this spring, have been published in German on our website in August. In order to make the recommendations accessible to an international context, we have translated them into English. The practice recommendations can be opened via the menu item “Publications” and can be viewed via fold-out sections. They are also available as a PDF file. Using the language switch in the menu at the top right-hand edge, the website language and that of the practice recommendations can be selected between German and English.

On September 13 and 14, 2024, the German Society for Clinical Psychotherapy, Prevention and Psychosomatic Rehabilitation met in Ratzeburg for its annual conference. On Saturday morning, we presented our practice recommendations in a one-hour presentation and discussed them with the participants. Click here to see our presentation.

From May to September 2024, visits were conducted over several days at the three participating clinics. During these visits, there was direct exchange with the implementation managers, clinic management, staff, and the rehabilitants on-site. „In the clinics, there is a comprehensive psychotherapeutic offering, which is flexibly adapted to the needs of the rehabilitants,” said Stefanie Freytag, the responsible staff member. She described the atmosphere in the clinics as always friendly and appreciative. She looks forward to further collaboration and thanked the clinics for their commitment.

The focus of the two-day online implementation workshops, held on two separate occasions, was on planning the implementation of practical recommendations work-related medical rehabilitation in psychosomatic rehabilitation (WMR) in the participating clinics. Workshop leader M.Sc. Stefanie Freytag, a research associate at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, welcomed a total of four implementation managers from the participating clinics to the event. After a welcome address by Prof. Dr. Markus Bassler and Prof. Dr. Matthias Bethge, project leaders of the study centers, the research staff introduced themselves. The specialist lectures on change-/project management were followed by intensive discussions. The clinic-specific approaches to implementing the …

At the start of the project, the WMR-PRIME working group formulated 119 proposals for possible practice recommendations. Between March 14, 2024 and March 29, 2024, the proposals were agreed in a Delphi round of anonymous online voting by clinical staff, scientists, pension insurance providers employees and people who had been treated in The recommendations evaluated in the first vote were revised by the WMR-PRIME working group. They were offered to the participants of the first Delphi round for voting again in a second Delphi round between 29.04.2024 and 10.05.2024. Of the 119 recommendations submitted in the second round, two were …